There are several ways you can check your hard drives without downloading 3rd-party apps.<\/span><\/p>\n The first way is this:<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Open File Explorer (Windows Key+ E_<\/span> You can also check your drives using CHKDSK and the Command prompt. See our article here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And there’s another, lesser-known way, to check your drive(s) and that’s by using the WMIC command. Here’s how:<\/span><\/p>\n Open a Command Prompt.<\/span><\/p>\n In Windows 10 type CMD in the taskbar search. When “Command Prompt” appears at the top, press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n In the Command Prompt enter the following command exactly as shown (copy & paste works too):<\/span><\/p>\n WMIC DISKDRIVE GET MODEL,STATUS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Then press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n Make sure you type the command exactly as it\u2019s shown above or it won’t work.<\/span><\/p>\n As you can see above, my hard drive is A-OK. You can also see the make and model of the hard drive. If you have an external drive or drives plugged in, the WMIC command will check those as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you get error messages with error codes, be sure to look them up online. If your drive or drives are not OK, make sure your data is backed up on a working external hard drive. Then check them using one of the methods shown at the beginning of this article.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Check Your Hard Drive(s) Using the WMIC Command There are several ways you can check your hard drives without downloading 3rd-party apps. The first way is this: 1. Open File Explorer (Windows Key+ E_ 2. In “This PC”, right-click on the drive you want to check 3. Choose “Properties” then click the\u00a0 “Tools” tab. 4. Click\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3948,10],"tags":[769],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19772,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19771\/revisions\/19772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. In “This PC”, right-click on the drive you want to check<\/span>
\n3. Choose “Properties” then click the\u00a0 “Tools” tab.<\/span>
\n4. Click the “Check” button under “Error checking.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"Cloudeight](\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/wmicdrive.png\")
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